Seductions Quotes

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The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love. — Thomas Jefferson
To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of… — Robyn Davidson
To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live life on our… — Robin Sharma
One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning.… — Os Guinness
Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These,… — William Deresiewicz
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny… — Tammy Bruce
There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis. — Richard Brautigan
Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides. — Amos Bronson Alcott
I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where thereâ€™s a brawl and seductions and people… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Salvador DalÃ seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs,… — Luis Bunuel
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under… — Virginia Woolf
To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no… — Cynthia Ozick
Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which… — Stacy Schiff
That work is ever more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required. How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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